[LRflex] Re: ever-ready case for SL
- From: "Miha Golobic" <miha.golobic@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:41:49 +0100
Dear Ted,
I trust your words and always find wisdom in them.
About 11 years ago (just pre digital era) I skip a year in my college and
got a job at a local newspaper as a press photographer. I was shooting with
my nikons and never babied them. This is not the case with the SL either, I
look at it as a temporary solution. The strap lugs are only about 1 mm thick
and I don`t trust them. I wonder why Leica made them of brass and not of
steel.
I hope your new M8 serves you well, mon ami. A beautiful machine!
Best regars,
Miha
2008/11/26 Ted Grant <tedgrant@xxxxxxx>
> Miha Golobic said and asked:
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> >> I bought myself a christmas gift in November already;-) It`s a
> Leicaflex SL. The camera is in very good condition, apart from the strap
> lugs - they are almost worn out. Doug told me they can be replaced, but I
> don`t want to part with the camera after I just got it. So I was thinking of
> ever-ready case for the SL. Do they come with strap lugs? Anyone can tell
> me? Have been searching the internet, but the photos don`t show me clearly.
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> Miha mon ami,
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> There isn't a camera case made that's an "ever-ready case"!
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> As soon as you put a leather case on any camera it immediately ceases to be
> "READY FOR IMMEDIATATE USE!"
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> Yes there will be all kinds of arguments and rebuttals to my remarks. But
> the living experience truth is, "as soon as the case is on the camera it's
> of no more immediate instantaneous use!" If you don't believe me, fine.
>
> You of course will eventually learn I speak the truth. J
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> I've never had a case on a Leica camera to the extent of carrying several
> pre-M's and certainly none on three M's off my neck to my chest since the M4
> became my camera of choice. These were changed to M5, M6, M7 and now M8.
> Although at the moment I'm only using one M8. That could change. But no case
> has ever shared the body of any of my Leica cameras in over 50 years.
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> Add the same number 3 at a time, starting with the SL, SL2, R4, R7, R8's.
> And never a case on any of them.
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> At present the 3 R8's I have still look like new and they've never had a
> case.
>
> A suggestion for the money? Use it to buy film and shoot more pictures. I'm
> sure you'll have a far greater value for your money!
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> Ted
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